Pictured is a SR-1 'model d' (the first model with a meter shoe) with a SR Meter attached. This was a Selenium cell meter, and thus needed no battery.

The serial number of the body is 1250014.

Back cover

Here, for the first time, the name of the US subsidiary (established in April 1959) appears:

Minolta Corporation,
200 Park Avenue South, New York 3, N.Y.

Printed in Japan

Cat.# SR-102A

Page 2

Completely automatic

The serial of the camera body pictured here, is 1249395.

Page 3

The Penta-Prism Finder

Pages 4 and 5

Minolta SR-1

The body serial is 1249395, the same as on the previous page.

Again, several pictures are borrowed from earlier SR-2 and SR-1 brochures.

The preset lever is new: Since the aperture opend up immediately after exposure, there was a need to manually stop down the lens in order to check the depth of field. So, a small lever was incorporated in each lens. This change happened with the 'model c', the predecessor of the model shown here w/o meter shoe.